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DIRTY CABLES: Cheap custom cables available now(dangerousprototypes.com)
2 points by mhw 9y ago|0 comments
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by mhw 9y ago
As a Windows outsider, I'm puzzled why programs used as part of the Chrome build system (which I'd expect to only use console I/O) are using APIs that cause interactions with the GUI? By analogy, is this not like gcc redundan
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The WHATWG Blog – The Developer’s Edition of HTML Makes a Comeback(blog.whatwg.org)
1 points by mhw 9y ago|0 comments
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RailsCasts Pro episodes are now free(railscasts.com)
10 points by mhw 9y ago|0 comments
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by mhw 9y ago
So are the local restaurants when compared to McDonald's - I guess it all depends on what you want to get out of travel.
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by mhw 9y ago
It doesn't have to be: you can use (Ruby) modules, classes and namespacing to split the application into logical pieces. Then start to enforce encapsulation between these pieces, so all access to a given piece of the system goes throug
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by mhw 9y ago
I've not checked how it works, but I don't think Universal Clipboard pushes the data that's being copy-pasted via the cloud. I've certainly used it to copy Wifi access codes from my phone to laptop when neither device ha
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For Whom Libel Tolls(popbitch.com)
1 points by mhw 10y ago|0 comments
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by mhw 10y ago
ReDoc looks pretty good - https://github.com/Rebilly/ReDoc I particularly like its approach to presenting hierarchical data structures.
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by mhw 10y ago
Yes; 10 years working while the economy tries to recover from that, and now we're about to chuck it back into turmoil mode again.
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by mhw 10y ago
I'm a TalkTalk customer, and was on the receiving end of this scam last year. I'm savvy enough to know that all the machines on our network were unlikely to be suffering from the problems they tried to describe (only one Windows l
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by mhw 10y ago
Off topic, but I wanted to highlight the open source contributions that Instacart have made. Have a look at all the good stuff at https://github.com/ankane - chartkick, ahoy, pghero, searchkick, blazer and more. Edit: shoul
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by mhw 10y ago
Yes, I imagine it would. Just need to wait until Thursday evening to find out for sure.
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by mhw 10y ago
If you're in the UK, Yesterday are about to start a re-run of the series. See http://yesterday.uktv.co.uk/shows/secrets-of-the-castle/ and http://www.radiotimes.com/tv-programme/e/c7
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by mhw 10y ago
They are also regulars here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rsync and (for example) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13277835
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by mhw 10y ago
> Ruby doesn't have a per project equivalent to Virtualenv that I'm aware of. The nearest equivalent is to place a file called '.ruby-version' in the top level directory, containing the version number of the Ruby you
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by mhw 10y ago
> One thing that Apple has done very well is put together a website that: A.) Tells you what they are selling, and B.) Can sell it to you. C.) Be able to configure a US keyboard when you're not in the US. I'm in the
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by mhw 10y ago
Sinky McNukeface surely?
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The 50 best podcasts of 2016(theguardian.com)
1 points by mhw 10y ago|0 comments
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by mhw 10y ago
> Just a terrible gimmick honestly in your opinion
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by mhw 10y ago
> One issue I've noticed on occasion is that Ad blockers can silently break websites Unfortunately the same can be said about the ads and their javascript, and with much higher frequency. I got sick of pages that randomly scroll bac
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by mhw 10y ago
Hmm; appears unrelated to https://www.schneier.com/books/practical_cryptography/
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by mhw 10y ago
Wow. I thought Eclipse was memory hungry, and given the comments here I also thought Sublime Text was frugal with memory compared with Atom. For comparison, my development machine with a Docker environment and dev tools running: http:&#x2F
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by mhw 10y ago
There seems to be a pretty consistent pattern of Chrome and apps built with Electron having large memory footprints. You should turn up here when an Atom article hits the front page and see how HN commenters' attitudes to memory consum
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by mhw 10y ago
Would you mind indulging the audience (or me specifically) and outlining what you're doing that uses 30Gb+ of RAM? Is this one application with huge data sets, or many applications that must be run at the same time? Genuinely intereste
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by mhw 10y ago
It used to, but the newer Docker for Mac uses xhyve which is more lightweight. It also by default runs a pretty stripped down version of Linux. The default VM size is 2Gb, but you can increase that if you need to. I'm currently working
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Apple’s new MacBook Pro may be the world’s fastest stock laptop(computerworld.com)
2 points by mhw 10y ago|4 comments
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It's the data, stupid(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by mhw 10y ago|0 comments
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by mhw 10y ago
Or automatically generated queries coming from third party tools you don't control...
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by mhw 10y ago
It looks like they're handling it with Reactive Record[1] and Synchromesh[2] > Reactive Record compiles your Active Record models so they are accessible to the front-end and implements an API based on your models and their associati

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